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#281
You do that. I think I'll go with "hired not acquired" sticker.
The "jackpot" has to do with the new pay rates and total compensation. Did the VX pilots score? Yeah, big time. There are no Mega Million airline careers as we all know. It wasn't too long ago that the big boys started making decent money. The pendulum is constantly swinging. It's great that you've moved on to greener pastures but remember, when the pendulum swings the other way, the big boys go down harder. Let's all hope that the pendulum doesn't swing too far.
The "jackpot" has to do with the new pay rates and total compensation. Did the VX pilots score? Yeah, big time. There are no Mega Million airline careers as we all know. It wasn't too long ago that the big boys started making decent money. The pendulum is constantly swinging. It's great that you've moved on to greener pastures but remember, when the pendulum swings the other way, the big boys go down harder. Let's all hope that the pendulum doesn't swing too far.
So why you are stuck on this windfall line I am not sure. Any average 10 year CA at VA is without question on W2 par or thereabout with any 20 year CA on your side, all while working less days. I am not sure why you have such a boner for this payrate thing. There is just simply much more to it than that.
So perhaps go learn some actual facts and it will enable you to look at this in a more realistic manner. The path forward is not clinging to baseless opinions you seem to have formed from an absence o factual data.
Your opinion is kind of meaningless if you just keep saying the same inaccurate thing over and over.
Do you want to know the truth? I realize it does not jive with the line you have chosen to follow, but that can get cleared up with actual information if you want it. Unless you are choosing deliberately to be obtuse?
#282
You are stoned......The only Alaska Captains that make that kind of money are the same group of two-bit VSA *****s that helped us get the deplorable contract that we now have. At 18 plus years with 11 in the left seat I have never earned more than 200K. Add the “year-long interest-free loan” to that and I hit just under 220K. No premium(ever), no open time pick up ,fly line value ,14 to 15 days off a month......That is the real story. And on top of that it is W2 over TAFB....and on that score we are in last place
While our rates sucked, it has been efficient and soft money (preemo, incentive, and the givaaway stuff like QIP) is readily available if not baked into the cake all while working less days. High QOL for the same dollars.
I wish the 2louds would get that so the conversation could move forward to fix the whole thing rather than who got what windfall. There were no windfalls except for those who get the benefit of "synergies" and that ain't us. We need to focus on carving out a bigger slice of the pie for us that does not include working more to make the same W2 with a higher pay rate.
#284
Line Holder
Joined APC: Nov 2011
Position: Have gun, will travel
Posts: 92
I'm sure you're lots of fun at parties.
So much "scoring," that many other FOs I know here at VX have updated their apps elsewhere since Oct 30th. For me, it was a combination of a number of factors. The tipping point was management's assertion that AK is a stepping stone and not a place to have a career. Okay, fine.....I'll treat this airline as a stepping stone and go have my career elsewhere then.
The "jackpot" has to do with the new pay rates and total compensation. Did the VX pilots score? Yeah, big time.
#287
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2007
Posts: 160
Anyway, d*ck measuring on an internet forum isn’t going to help at all. There is a 99.999999% that SLI is going to arbitration and both pilot groups bickering on here is absolutely pointless. Don’t lose sight that we are almost into 2018. We start full negotiations in 2 years. I suggest spending more effort focusing on that and saving up a strike fund than grenading ourselves over something we ultimately will have no control over.
#290
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: Right Window
Posts: 138
As of today, the jr. Captain is Jan 2012, also based in Anchorage.
There are approx. 120 FO's senior to the jr. captain in Seattle (who presumably are waiting until they can hold Seattle to upgrade). The jr. captain in Seattle is a summer 2007 hire.
PDX is approx 2003/4 to hold the left seat.
LAX jr Captain is summer 2007.
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